Hilal Elver, the third person to hold the position of Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, is a law professor and globally distinguished fellow at UCLA Law School's Resnick Food Law and Policy Center.
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Kosovo launches drive to encourage women to claim property rights
20 January 2017
By: Paola Totaro
Date: 20 January 2017
Source: Reuters
Kosovo is to revolutionise its land laws and will, for the first time, clearly define formal ownership and encourage women to inherit and own land in their own right.
Guatemalan Activist Killed Protesting Hydroelectric Project
20 January 2017
Date: 18 January 2017
Source: Telesur
A peaceful demonstrator was shot dead during a protest in an Indigenous community.
An activist was killed Tuesday in Guatemala during a clash between protesters and police at a demonstration led by Indigenous community members who oppose the construction of a hydroelectric plant in San Mateo Ixtatan, a municipality in the country's western highlands.
Brazilian Decree Seen as Damaging to Indigenous Land Rights
20 January 2017
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil has announced changes to the procedure for demarcating indigenous lands in a move campaign groups fear will weaken the land rights of communities facing mounting pressure from illegal logging and big agricultural operations.
Under the decree, demarcation of indigenous lands will be decided by the Ministry of Justice rather than the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI), a government body set up to carry out policies relating to Brazil's 900,000 indigenous people.
Time to act on water scarcity
20 January 2017
Date: 20 January 2017
Source: FAO
FAO Director-General calls for better water management and improved access for small farmers
In the fight for climate justice, indigenous people set the path – and lead the way
19 January 2017
Date: 19 January 2017
Source: The Guardian
Many believe the fight to combat climate change hinges on the aligned interests of capital and state. Give the Elon Musks of the world enough time and resources and they will innovate us out of impending climate catastrophe. Get the G20 in a room and they will hammer out a deal and create regulations to enforce it. Or so the thinking in some circles goes.
The Rights of Nature: Indigenous Philosophies Reframing Law
15 January 2017
Indigenous battles to defend nature have taken to the streets, leading to powerful mobilizations like the gathering at Standing Rock. They have also taken to the courts, through the development of innovative legal ways of protecting nature. In Ecuador, Bolivia and New Zealand, indigenous activism has helped spur the creation of a novel legal phenomenon -- the idea that nature itself can have rights.
Paraguay's Congress Seeks Solutions to Evicted Farmers
10 January 2017
Residents were attacked by police forces Monday in order to evict them in Guahory, in the department of Caaguazu.
Responding to the urgent request of Paraguayan campesinos, who were violently evicted from their land, Paraguay's Permanent Legislative Commission held a meeting with the National Institute of Rural and Land Development, INDRT, director Justo Cardenas to try to resolve the issue.
Granting Women Their Land Rights Benefits Everyone
28 June 2016
By: Melany Grout
Date: 28 June 2016
Source: News Deeply
More than 400 million women around the globe are farmers, but many have no rights to the land they till. Securing those rights is crucial if the world wants to reach its development goals, writes land tenure specialist Melany Grout.
Can Duterte fix agrarian reform?
19 June 2016
THE DESIGNATION by incoming President Rodrigo Duterte of Rafael “Ka Paeng” Mariano as his secretary of agrarian reform is welcome news for the Filipino peasantry, farmworkers and the rural poor. Mariano, born into a poor peasant family in Nueva Ecija, is chair of Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas and former Anakpawis party-list representative.